When hearing the name Virginia Woolf, one usually recalls the author’s famous novels such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse or The Waves. It is also more than probable that once Woolf’s experimental writings are mentioned, they are inevitably linked to their writer’s genius...

Hopefully there are hardly any people in the world who would not look deeply into one’s soul when thinking of the Holocaust, raising at least one of these questions: How could all these happen? What could make humans torture and kill other humans on account of their race or sexual...

In 1977, two years after the original release of Fateless, Imre Kertész learned from one of his acquaintances that a review of his book was published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Soon, Kertész sent a letter to the author of the review, the Swiss literateur of Hungarian origin, Eva...

Just like all eras, today has its own mythology. In today's vulgar myth-creation, popular writers and movie stars take the place of ancient heroes, and ancestral legends are replaced by trivial stories and trendy clichés of pop culture. Mythological consciousness doesn't get...

It would be definitely difficult to read the works of Péter Esterházy without knowing the Péter Esterházy phenomena. In his latest work our author attempts to rewrite, i.e. to continue the Kornél Esti short stories of Kosztolányi. But once being more or...

I came across the newly published conversation book by Attila Bartis and István Kemény on a sunny afternoon in autumn. The first thing I felt was disappointment because it seemed that two of the three conversations in the book have already been published on litera.hu. I cursed the...

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The Virginia Woolf Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery took place between 10 July and 26 October 2014, and covered the writer’s life from her early childhood to her death. The photos, hand-written diary entries...

Beholding the cover of this not too bulky, yet very well-structured volume the future reader may marvel at the peculiar pink-white mist which deepens into a noble dark purple towards the back cover. No mistake, he is about to...